Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Monday, June 20, 2011

Well, I started another quilt top this weekend. Here's a sneak peek at part of it

these churn dash blocks will alternate with kaleidoscope blocks to make a unique kaleidoscope. I am using the pattern from ''Kaleidoscope, the Smart Way'' - the special ruler to make the kaleidoscope blocks from HST blocks should be in my mail box today :)

I used a pre-printed backing and ''sort of'' followed the lines. I had to baste it with the back-side up as if the top was the backing and the backing was the top. I used a bazillion safety pins to baste and I am happy to say that I cannot notice one pleat in the front! There might be tiny ones, but I can't see any, so it worked out great! I took artistic liberties to make some curves curvier and I didn't worry too much if I went off course a bit - you can't tell at all now that it's washed and the blue lines have washed out :) I think this backing is from Benartex, but I'm not positive. It was stuff I got before my LQS closed (owner retired) and they had a huge clearance sale. It was cheap and I got all they had - now I wish there had been more! I have enough to do another small quilt with this though, but I'm going to have to piece and wing it on matching up those lines where I piece it. Should be fine for a baby quilt or lap quilt though :)

Saturday, June 4, 2011

I have the quilting DONE on my WeePlay HST quilt and am working on binding today!

I know it looks like the binding is white, but it's not, I promise :) It's a scrappy binding from 1 1/2'' strips of the WeePlay material sewn to a 1 1/2'' strip of white - and I'm sewing it so the white won't show..... I'll get pics of it completely done as soon as I can - hopefully I can get it finished hand-sewn and washed by tonight :)